Latest from Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgard, the irish Tana french and Italian Luca D'Andrea go to the exhibitors of large and small bookstores. 3 titles that are very interesting to take a look at on these days off. We go with them.
Karl Ove Knausgård - It has to rain
Knausgård (Oslo, 1968) is the Norwegian author with more international projection of recent times (and with the permission of illustrious compatriots such as Nesbø, Fossum or Bjørk). In 2009 he undertook an unparalleled literary project: his autobiographical work, whose first title was My struggle. It is six novels, whose last book was published in 2011 in his native country. There he has received a large number of awards and has added an even greater number of readers.
The consequences: translations immediate to other languages, international distribution and reactions also immediate and very positive critics. Here at the moment the first four titles have arrived: The death of the father, A man in love, The island of childhood y Dancing in the Dark. It has to rain is the fifth.
Knausgård continues narrating and self-analyzing his life and your writing process. He is twenty years old and begins to write with an illusion that soon loses. He considers his texts puerile, full of clichés, and is frustrated at the fact that he will never be a writer. To this is added their social disabilities and their ongoing problems with drink and violence. But he will continue to insist on continuing.
You will first discover that you are good at Literary criticism and later he will improve his social skills in the most intimate and personal field by meeting his future wife.
Tana French - Intrusion
Tana French (Vermont, 1973) is currently considered as one of the best writers of the black genre. The Irish actress and author published this new novel last May, which critics such as those of the Washington Post or Time raised as the best thriller of 2016. Intrusion it's a black novel with him background of harassment and violence against women.
Aislinn murray, a young and attractive woman, appears dead of a blow to the head at his home in a working-class neighborhood in North Dublin. Everything seems to indicate that it is a very clear case of domestic violence. The Detective Antoinette Conway, new to the homicide squad, will take over the investigation while, at the same time, it is suffering harassment in the department. He only maintains a good relationship with his partner and although he feels strong and tough, the situation is not easy for him.
To all is added that Conway also has the feeling of knowing to the victim, the presión teammates to arrest the most obvious suspect and a shadow that stalks her in the neighborhood where she lives. The result will be a murder investigation far more complicated than it appeared.
Luca D'Andrea - The substance of evil
D'Andrea was born in 1979 in Bolzano, Italy. There he lives and works as a teacher. He started by writing a youth trilogy titled wonder child and in 2013 he was the scriptwriter of the documentary series Mountain heroes about the team of alpine rescue. This fact inspired him this his first thriller, The Substance of Evil, which was published in Italy in 2016 and it has become a whole publishing phenomenon.
It was sold to more than thirty countries even before its publication and is being translated into thirty-five languages. To top it off, the producers of Gomorrah they are going to make a television adaptation.
Tells us the story of three young men brutally murdered in 1985, during a terrible storm, in the Bletterbach, a huge Tyrolean cannon. Thirty years later the american documentary maker Jeremiah salinger He comes to live in a small Alpine village with his wife and young daughter.
As he gets to know his neighbors, Salinger begins to obsess over that unsolved case. But no one around him wants to remove the past. Those brutal crimes have created an atmosphere of damn and they all seem to hide unspeakable secrets.